Nearly 3 bln trips recorded during Spring Festival travel rush

An artist performs a dance on train Z316 from Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, to Beijing, Feb. 8, 2018. China's 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, which concluded on March 12, witnessed 2.97 billion passenger trips, according to official data. The traffic is basically the same as that of last year, according to the Ministry of Transport. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)